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As a member of the First American family of companies, First American Trust is a federal savings bank that has provided banking, wealth management, and trust solutions on a national, full-service basis for more than five decades. Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for eleven consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.What We Do\nFirst American Trust is seeking an experienced Senior Scrum Master to help agile teams deliver meaningful business outcomes through effective Lean-Agile practices.The Senior Scrum Master is a senior agile practitioner who serves as a servant leader, coach, facilitator, and change agent. This role helps teams improve effectiveness, delivery flow, transparency, and predictability while supporting First American Trust’s business agility roadmap.\nThe Senior Scrum Master works closely with Product Owners, delivery teams, leaders, stakeholders, Release Train Engineer and other Senior Scrum Masters to strengthen Agile practices, remove systemic barriers, and improve how work moves from concept to customer value.\nWhat You'll Do:\nFacilitate and drive effective Scrum and Agile events, including dailysync, backlog refinement,iterationplanning,iterationreviews, and retrospectives.\n\nEnsure events are purposeful, well prepared, inclusive, and result in clear decisions, actions, or improvement commitments.\n\nCoach teams in Scrum, Kanban, Lean-Agile principles, self-organization, collaboration, continuous improvement, and effective delivery practices.\n\nBuild a safe, trusting, and inclusive team environment where concerns can be raised openly and addressed through problem solving.\n\nPartner with Product Owners to improve backlog health, prioritization, refinement, sprint readiness,PI Planning readinessand alignment to customer and business outcomes.\n\nHelp teamsestablishmeaningful sprint goals and improve delivery predictability, quality, flow, and accountability.\n\nIndependentlyidentify, understand, track, escalate, and help remove impediments, risks, dependencies, and organizational barriers.\n\nLead structured problem-solving conversations that help teams and stakeholders address the causesof delivery challenges.\n\nProtect the team from unnecessary interruptions whilemaintainingappropriate transparencywith stakeholders and leadership.\n\nUse Jira and other Agile tools tomaintainaccuratedelivery information and communicate relevant metrics, trends, risks, dependencies, and progress.\n\nUsedeliverymetrics to support transparency, learning, and improvement rather than individual performance evaluation.\n\nFacilitate retrospectives that produce meaningful, documented improvement actions andcoach team tofollow through on those commitments.\n\nCoordinate with engineering leaders, managers, architects, business partners, and other Scrum Masters to resolve cross-team challenges.\n\nRepresent the team inCoach Sync, ART Sync, and otherART-level coordination events.\n\nHelp teams prepare for andparticipateeffectively in PI Planning, including readiness, planning inputs,objectives, dependencies, risks, and commitments.\n\nCollaborate with other Senior Scrum Masters and Agile practitioners to share effective practices, lessons learned, facilitation techniques, and approaches for improving team and organizational agility.\n\nContribute to the Lean-Agile Office’s business agility roadmap and the continued evolution of First American Trust’s Agile operating model.\n\nDemonstrate servant leadership, situationalawareness, emotionalintelligenceadaptability, anda growthmindset.\n\nWhat You'll Bring:\n5-7years of experience applying Scrum and Agile methodsas scrum master of an agile software delivery team.\n\nPrefer 1-2 years of experience in the Scaled Agile Framework.\n\nExperience coachingAgileteams across different team sizes, levels of maturity, and delivery contexts.\n\nStrong knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean-Agile principles, and continuous improvement practices.\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead Scrum events and create environments that promote participation, accountability, transparency, and psychological safety.\n\nExperience coaching teams and Product Owners on Agile practices, backlog health, collaboration, and delivery effectiveness.\n\nDemonstrated ability toidentify, escalate, and resolve impediments, delivery risks, dependencies, and organizational barriers.\n\nStrong understanding of backlog management, prioritization, refinement, sprint planning, sprint goals, and outcome-based delivery.\n\nModerate toexpert-level experience with Jira or comparable Agile delivery tools.\n\nExceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical audiences and senior leadership.\n\nStrong facilitation, conflict-resolution, negotiation,stakeholder-management, and problem-solving skills.\n\nAbility to influence without formal authority and work effectively in a cross-functional, fast-moving environment.\n\nCertified ScrumMasterorSAFeAdvanced Scrum Master certificationisrequired.\n\nBachelor’sdegree in Business, Information Technology, or related fields.\n\nPay Range: $112,400.00 - $149,800.00 AnnuallyThis hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements and geographic location.** Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County. **\nFirst American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).\nFirst American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.\nWhat We Offer\nBy choice, we don’t simply accept individuality - we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First culture is inclusive for all employees - not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. 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